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I went to Les Wildes on a Tuesday with a friend in the sixties.We walked there from South Ealing.Our favourite dancing partners were Patrick Daley and Alan Carpenter. Good memories from there. Sandra Plummer

A memory of Ealing by sandraaplummer

I was born in South road, Sparkbrook in 1946 and attended Montgomery Street school until age eleven. Mr Brazier was the headmaster, he was wonderful. My first teacher was the lovely Mrs Askew then Miss Gorniak who was very strict. ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by pennyjeff

I'm not absolutely sure the garden was as spick and span as this at the turn of the sixties, but it wasn't that long before it became this way. It had been a ruin until the early fifties when a brutalist electricity sub ...Read more

A memory of Timperley by jsbrennan.125

I spent my youth in Farnham Common and have nothing but happy memories. We lived in an old house called Glenwood in Templewood Lane. In those days (The 1950's and 1960's) there were very few houses. ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Common by dcpharrison

March 1973 – Life at the Fairways Dilton Marsh Not too long after moving in I found out that the area near where we lived was in fact known locally as ‘The Tanyard’ and now years later there is a new road where the ...Read more

A memory of Dilton Marsh by keith.poole

I was born in Burgess Hill in 1947 and lived there until 1971. I lived in St. Wilfrid's Road and went to Junction Road Primary School. Our headmaster was John Freestone, who was quite a well known singer, and a very kind and ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by edean2017

I'm trying to find out the history of 'Bronllwyn', Tyn y Wern Villas, Trethomas, South Wales and what it was used for in the 1920's. My mother was born and brought up in Bedlinog, Glamorganshire, South Wales but it seems she spent some ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by Margo Smith

I was born in 1946 and attended Rokesley Infants school from 1951 to 1953. We baby boomers were too many for the main school and in 1952 my class was in a private house just up the road from the school. We had to ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by Helen Dickinson

Hello I'm trying to find out the name of the convent that my Mother grew up in in Southall. She was left there as an orphan as a 2 or 3 year old in 1915 and lived there being looked after by nuns until she ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Derek White

I was born in 1973 and lived in Burnt Oak for 6 lovely years from aged 4 to 10 when we relocated to South London. I attended the Annunciation Primary School and St Martins School ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Shane O Neill